He lost his prior job after relationship with student while working as school liaison officer.

ROCKWOOD, Michigan -- A former police officer will not serve any jail time after being accused of having inappropriate contact with a female prisoner.

Christian Zieminski, 33, was sentenced Tuesday by Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway to two years probation after pleading guilty to two counts of willful failure to uphold the law.

The charges are misdemeanors and are reduced from the ones he originally faced. He was charged in August with one count each of second- and fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, felonies punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

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He also was charged at that time with misconduct in office, a two-year high misdemeanor.

Zieminski was fired from the Rockwood Police Department on July 6.

As a condition of his sentence he will forfeit any grievance or challenge to his termination from the police department, and he will forfeit his Michigan Coalition of Law Enforcement Standards certification.

When he was hired by the Rockwood Police Department in June 2007, it was under a cloud of controversy, as he had been fired by the Brownstown Township Police Department in 2006.

At that time, Zieminski was serving as Brownstown's liaison officer at Woodhaven High School when police confirmed that he had an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old student.

He had been an officer in Brownstown for six years before being terminated there.

A former Rockwood police chief who recommended Zieminski to the City Council did so without informing them of his termination with township police, believing he deserved a second chance.

Stephen Rowe, the city's current police chief, expressed his disappointment at the situation once the Rockwood charges were made public and said nothing like that has ever occurred in the department before.

He called the situation "depressing and sad" after Zieminski was fired.

To ensure an impartial investigation, Rowe immediately turned the investigation over to the Michigan State Police after hearing the accusations against Zieminski.

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